Barb fence-wire



(No Model.)

J. HAISH.

BARB FENCE WIRE.

No. 332,252. Patented Dec. 15, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB HAISH, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BARB FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,252, dated December15, 1885.

Application filed February 16, 1883. Serial No. 85,277. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB HAISH, of the city of De Kalb,county of DeKalb, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Barb Fence-Wires, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, which will enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention .appertains to construct and use said sheet-metal two-pointcable fence-wire, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, apart hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a section of my two-point sheetmetalbarb-wire cable fence. Fig. 2 represents the form of the barb before thehereinafter-described lips O are compressed to embrace the wires. Fig. 3is an end view of one of my barbs compressed upon and binding togetherthe two wires forming the strand. Fig. 4 is a modified form of myinvention, showing an end view of one of said barbs.

I am aware that two-point sheet-metal barbs for wire fences have beenheretofore constructed in various ways, and I do not here claim,broadly, such invention.

My invention, however, consists of a peculiarly-constructed two-pointsheet-metal barb, which must be secured upon and embraced in thefencewire cable during the twisting or forming of said cable into astrand.

In the drawings, A represents a single barb, which can be mostconveniently fashioned by stamping or cutting with dies. Upon both sidesof this barb are openings B B, having projecting lips O 0, so formedthat such lips can be compressed or forced down and partially around thefence-wires F F. Said openings B B are simply of sufficient size toreceive the fencewires before the compression of the lips G C. Thistwo-point sheet-metal barb is 0 just as effective as a four-point barband takes only about half as much metal in manufacture. 7

No coil is required to hold my two-point sheet-metal barb on the wire.It olasps the metal barb now in use.

two wires sufficiently to prevent the separation of the wires if one isbroken, and sufficiently to prevent any loosening or displacement of thebarb, and a much looser twist of the wire can be thus had than with anyother sheet- It does not coil around nor clasp the wire so closely thateither the wires or the barb rust or corrode by the gathering andretaining of moisture. It can be made a very light barb, and it isequally effective. The two points of the barb project, preferably,fromopposite sides of the strand.

By cutting the barb from diamond-shape blanks but a slight waste ofmetal is produced, which waste of metal will be no more than the wasteoccurring by punching two holesin a barb for the passing oftwo wires. Ifthe barbs are cast, there will be no waste of metal.

My barbs can be easily placed on the wires from the side, and can beeasily formed and fed between the wires automatically.- They can bemanufactured and sold as an article of merchandise to the trade, and thecompression or setting of the lips 0 upon the wires can be easilyaccomplished in the forming of the strand by now well-known tools ormechanism.

There is no bending of the points of the barbs or liability ofdestroying or injuring them in attaching them to cable fence-wire,asabove described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is-

A barb for wire fences,provided at each end with a point and a shortprojecting lip parallel thereto, the lips serving to clasp the strandsof the fence-cable and hold them respectively against the ends of thebody of the barb.

, J AOOB HAISH. Witnesses:

FREDERICK O. GOODWIN, GEORGE H. ORR.

